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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
ADVENTURE BAY PINE. 
rhomboidalis. 
ADVERSE. Opposite. 
ZICHMEA (from aichme, a point; in reference to the 
rigid points on the calyces or flower-envelopes). ORD. 
Bromeliacee. Very handsome stove plants. Flowers scapose, 
panicled; perianth six-cleft, three outer ones sepaloid, longer 
than the three inner or petaloid segments. Leaves ligulate, 
or sword-shaped, sometimes with marginal spines. They 
thrive best in a well drained compost of rich fibrous loam and 
leaf mould. The ordinary temperature of a stove suits these 
plants well, but they like plenty of light, which may be 
afforded by standing them on inverted pots, so as to raise 
their heads well up above the surrounding plants. Pro- 
pagation: When the flower spikes, which are sent up from 
the heart or crown of the plant, die away, suckers or offsets 
are produced near the base, and from these other flowers 
appear the year after. If large plants are desired, these 
See Phyllocladus 
suckers should be left to grow and spread around; but to 
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Fic. 33. ÆCHMEA FULGENS. 
get a moist heat till rooted. To enable them to do this it 
is necessary to strip off a few of the lower leaves, and trim 
the bottom with a sharp knife, in order that it may heal 
over and callus more readily than it otherwise would. 
When rooted, the plants may be shifted into larger-sized 
pots; but for single crowns 32-sized pots are large 
enough, as the plants, being epiphytal in their nature, 
do not require much soil or any great supply of water, 
except when growing freely or sending up their flower- 
spikes. In winter, they should be kept rather on the dry 
side, to induce partial rest; and an important point is to 
see that water is not allowed to lie for any length of time 
in the crown of the plant, as when that is the case it is 
likely to cause them to rot. 
Æ. calyculata (calycled).* 
i serene’ borne in close roundish hea 
En 
bri pager pr with red 
at the an erect scape. 
with the ends having the aj ce of Brg 
Brazil, 
cut off, but armed with a.sharp spine. h. 9i 
Syn. Hoplophytum calyc - 
Æ. eoolestis (heavenly blue).* | sky bho, i dob Spramidal 
panicles, on @ sca) T. imula Bar. 
Taa aig beneath, Drail, 1974.” Brn. Borhan taine 
Æ. ceerulescens (bluish). f. bluish. A. lft. South America, 
1870. iis pete SDan very Si ive on account of the large 
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Zichmea—continued. 
dense head of deep blue and pure white berries which are pro- 
duced in October. Syn. Lamprococcus coerulescens. € 
Æ. discolor (two-coloured-leaved).* ji. scarlet, borne on a loose, 
branched panicle. June. J. broad, minutely toothed on the | 
La deep green above, and rather purplish beneath. h. 2ft. 
razil, 3 E 
Æ. distichantha (two-ranked-flowered).* fl. sepals rose-coloured ; 
etals bia me purple; spikes densely clothed with bright 1 
racts. Z. long, glaucous, linear-oblong, tapering to a sharp point, — 
and distinctly armed with reddish brown spines, A. lft. South 
Brazil, 1852. SYN. Billbergia polystachya. 
Æ. exudans (exuding), fl. orange-coloured (exuding a white — 
greasy substance, whence the specific name) interspersed with 
green bracts ; scape erect, with scattered crimson lanceolate bracts, 
terminating in a dense head. J. oblong, spine-margined, grey- 
coated, h. 2ft. West Indies, 1824. Syn. Hohenbergia capitata. 
Æ, fasciata (banded).* fl. scape upright, clothed with leafy bracts — 
of a rosy-pink colour; each of the pink blossoms in the dense 
conical head is subtended by a narrow, spiny-edged, similarly- 
coloured bract, longer than its own. l. broad, recurved, banded 
with white. Rio Janeiro, 1826, SYN. Billbergia fasciata. Lasts 
in perfection for a considerable length of time. 
Æ, fulgens (glowing).* fi. deep rich red, with a bluish tip, fifty 
or more in a large branching panicle; scape stout, erect, scarl 
August, September. J. somewhat sword-shaped, t 
rather abruptly. Cayenne, 1842. See Fig. 33. 
Æ. Furstenbergi (Furstenberg’s). fl. rose; flower spike de 
with overlapping showy pink bracts, Z. tufted, linear, spinous 
the edge, recurved. k. 1ft. Bahia, 1879. 
Æ. glomerata (glomerate).* jl. violet ; scape erect, stout, 8in. to 
10in. high, with glomerate branches of crowded blood-red bracts 
l. oblong-ligulate, cuspidate, about 18in. long, dull green; margin 
bat ber a wide-set spines Bahia, 1868. Sy. A ‘Hohendergia ery: 
‘achys. 
hystrix (bristly).* in very dense, oblo es; floral - 
leaves and fants La February. l. y a ay Bs ascend 
, linear lanceolate, saw-toothed. h. 24ft. Cayenne, 1880. 
inden’s). jl. yellow, in dense terminal heads, with | 
a pà brae SE than eri eht me l HRAT, j 
rounded, a) ; margins saw- ; habit tufted. : 
South Brasil, 1864. aS 
Mariæ Reginæ een Maria’s).* i 
ing to Selene a On age, be Ci 
upper portion of the spike ; scape erect, about 2ft 
length is clothed with large boat-shaped_ bracts, some 
in y rich rose-pink. June, July. Z. 18in. long, with a 
habit. Costa Rica, 1873. This is perhaps the best species. 
Æ. Melinoni (Melinon’s), fl. bright scarlet, tipped with 
cylindric; panicle dense, terminal. J. oblong, leathery, 
1gin. in length, dark green; margin spiny. South America. 
Æ. Ortgiesii (Ortgies’), fl. red, on short spikes, 
channelled, recurved, spongy, broad at the base, and taperi 
a point; stem short, gouty. Tropical America, 1800. 
Ortgiesia tillandsioides. 
Æ. paniculigera (panicled). fl. rose-coloured, petals proj 
beyond the sepals, deep bright tes panicle Be: compo’ : 
lft. to 2ft. long ; scape reddish, downy, several feet high ; rachides © 
and bracts rose-coloured. J, ligulate, shortly acuminate. West 
Indies, 1881. 
Æ. spectabilis (notable).* jl, rosy ; calyx fleshy, ovate ; corolla 
lin. long, rosy crimson. l. spreading, channelled, ligulate, 24ft. 
long, šin. to 4in. broad, Guatemala, 1875. : 
Æ. Veitchii (Veitch’s).* scarlet ; spike densely clothed with — 
— geared _— closely investi flowers f tufted, 
eathery in texture, broadly strap-s ee 
serrulate, A. lft. Columbia, 1877 SYN. Chevalliera Veitchit. 
EEGICERAS (from aiv, a goat, and keras, a horn; 
alluding to the shape of its fruit). ORD. Myrsinaceæ. Small 
trees, with obovate entire leaves. Flowers white, fragrant, | 
in terminal or axillary umbels. The undermentioned is @ — 
stout greenhouse evergreen milky shrub, of easy culture, 1 
a mixture of sand, loam, and peat. Half-ripened cuttings 
root in summer, under a glass, in sand, and in gentle heat. 
fragrans (f t white, fragrant ; umbels pedunculat Ca 
= os roma es l. obovate, margin undulated, an@ — 
unequally dilated, veiny ; er surface covered with saline €X- 
crescence. h, 6ft. New Holland, 1824, 
ZEGIPHILA (from aiz, a goat, and philos, dear; ® 
favourite with goats). ORD. Verbenacee. Stove orna- 
mental evergreen shrubs, generally with ovate : 
acuminate, smooth leaves; and flowers in axillary and 
terminal panicles. They require a rich sandy loam. Propa- 
gated from cuttings which will root in sand, under a glass, 
with bottom heat. 
Æ. grandiflora (large-flowered).* fl. yellow, terminal, corymbose; 
corolla downy. Go toes E compressed, blue. E verti- 
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